speaker: elements of the central intelligence agency killed j john kennededy. speaker: the story has been suppressed. witnesses have been killed. we have a right to know who killed our president and d why he dieied. [music playing] speaker: in dallas, preparations were already underway for extraordinary police protection when the president should arrive. interviewer: do you anticipate any trouble on the president s arrival? jesse curry: because of what has happened here previously, we would be foolish, i think, not to anticipate some trouble. i don t really, i don t anticipate any violence. speaker:r: here comemes air foe numbmber one, ththe presidenes plane now totouching dowown. here s s mrs. kennnnedy, anand the crowowd yells. and the president of the united states, and i can see his sun tan all the way from here. dan rather: looking at how things actually went, it wasn t just a trip to dallas. it was a political trip, preparing for the 1964 elections. speaker: shaking ha
jay watson: a gentleman just walked into our studio that i am meeting for the first time as well as you. this is wfaa-tv in dallas, texas. may i have your name, please, sir? abraham zapruder: my name is abraham zapruder. jay watson: mr. zapruder? abraham zapruder: zapruder, yes, sir. jay watson: zapruder. and would you tell us your story, please, sir? abraham zapruder: i got out about a half hour earlier, getting to a good spot to shoot some pictures. charles brehm: five-year-old boy and myself were by ourselves on the grass there on palmer street, and i asked joe to wave to him, and joe waved, and i waved and the the man interviewer: that s all right, sir. - he waved because he was waving back and he was he was the shot rang out and he slumped down in the seat. gayle newman: and then all of a sudden this next one popped and governor connally grabbed his stomach and kind of laid over to the side, and then another one. it was just all so fast. and president kenn
70 feet into the plaza while osawld had him within his sights much longer. there are so many interesting questions and problems that come from the film. we believe so much in the image and this sort of ultimate truth of film and of images. then they become our memory. is it impossible that the bullet would have gone through president kennedy, gone through the governor, and not suffered anymore damage than is shown in this photograph? i would hesitate to say it s absolutely 100% impossible, but it is highly improbable. could a single bullet have wounded by president kennedy and the governor? the single bullet theory has become perhaps the most controversial aspect of the court. if the warren commission couldn t prove one shot hit both men, that means two shooters. the conspiracy theorists claim the second shot was the
case is finally being heard. shaw sits quietly in the courthouse chain smoking cigarettes. the trial went on for six weeks. it s important to note that not one witness produced by garrison survived cross-examination. they were all proven to be unreliable at best. it s the most shameful thing you ve ever seen. everyone in the courtroom knew that clay shaw couldn t possibly have been more innocent. in a unanimous verdict by a 12-man jury, shaw was found not guilty of charges that he conspired to kill the late president john f. kennedy. clay, you know what our first question is going to be don t you? why did you do it? after the verdict, editorials around the country said one of the darkest chapters in american jurisprudence history. it s just a crime. i don t think he had proven
at frame 313, 1/18th of a second later, the president is struck in the head. and what direction is the president s head pushed? not backwards, but slightly forward. indicating a shot from the rear where lee harvey oswald was. i would hesitate really to say that it is absolutely 100% impossible. but it is highly improbable. could a single bullet have wounded both president kennedy and governor connally? the single bullet theory has perhaps become the most controversial aspect of the report. if the warren commission couldn t prove that one shot had hit both men. men, it meant there were two shooters and there was a conspiracy. the conspiracy theorists claim that the second shot was a magic bullet. they argue that a bullet would have had to make a right turn then a left turn in mid-air.